The craft research / (Record no. 8943)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978- 0- 226- 06566- 3
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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Booth, W. C.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The craft research /
Statement of responsibility, etc Wayne C. Booth, Gregory, G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 3rd
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc United States of America:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc The University of Chicago Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 337 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical annexures.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/><br/>Preface: The Aims of This Edition xi<br/>Our Debts xv<br/>I RESEARCH, RESEARCHERS, AND READERS 1<br/>P R O L O G U E : BECOMING A RE S EARCHER 3<br/>1 Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private 9<br/>1.1 What Is Research? 10<br/>1.2 Why Write It Up? 11<br/>1.3 Why a Formal Report? 13<br/>1.4 Writing Is Thinking 14<br/>2 Connecting with Your Reader: (Re- )Creating Yourself<br/>and Your Readers 16<br/>2.1 Creating Roles for Yourself and Your Readers 16<br/>2.2 Understanding Your Role 18<br/>2.3 Imagining Your Reader’s Role 20<br/>✩ Quick Tip: A Checklist for Understanding Your Readers 26<br/>I I ASKING QUESTIONS, FINDING ANSWERS 29<br/>P R O L O G U E : P L A N N I N G Y O U R P R O J E C T—A N O V E R V I E W 31<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Creating a Writing Group 34<br/>3 From Topics to Questions 35<br/>3.1 From an Interest to a Topic 36<br/>C o n t e n t s<br/>vi c o n t e n t s<br/>3.2 From a Broad Topic to a Focused One 39<br/>3.3 From a Focused Topic to Questions 40<br/>3.4 From a Question to Its Signifi cance 45<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Finding Topics 49<br/>4 From Questions to a Problem 51<br/>4.1 Distinguishing Practical and Research Problems 52<br/>4.2 Understanding the Common Structure of Problems 54<br/>4.3 Finding a Good Research Problem 62<br/>4.4 Learning to Work with Problems 64<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Manage the Unavoidable Problem of Inexperience 66<br/>5 From Problems to Sources 68<br/>5.1 Knowing How to Use Three Kinds of Sources 68<br/>5.2 Locating Sources through a Library 70<br/>5.3 Locating Sources on the Internet 75<br/>5.4 Evaluating Sources for Relevance and Reliability 76<br/>5.5 Following Bibliographical Trails 80<br/>5.6 Looking beyond Predictable Sources 81<br/>5.7 Using People as Primary Sources 81<br/>✩ Quick Tip: The Ethics of Using People as Sources of Data 83<br/>6 Engaging Sources 84<br/>6.1 Knowing What Kind of Evidence to Look For 85<br/>6.2 Record Complete Bibliographical Data 85<br/>6.3 Engaging Sources Actively 87<br/>6.4 Using Secondary Sources to Find a Problem 88<br/>6.5 Using Secondary Sources to Plan Your Argument 92<br/>6.6 Recording What You Find 95<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Manage Moments of Normal Anxiety 101<br/>I I I MAKING A CLAIM AND SUPPORTING IT 103<br/>P R O L O G U E : A S S E M B L I N G A R E S E A R C H A R G U M E N T 105<br/>7 Making Good Arguments: An Overview 108<br/>7.1 Argument as a Conversation with Readers 108<br/>7.2 Supporting Your Claim 110<br/>Contents vii<br/>7.3 Acknowledging and Responding to Anticipated Questions<br/>and Objections 112<br/>7.4 Warranting the Relevance of Your Reasons 114<br/>7.5 Building a Complex Argument Out of Simple Ones 116<br/>7.6 Creating an Ethos by Thickening Your Argument 117<br/>✩ Quick Tip: A Common Mistake—Falling Back on<br/>What You Know 119<br/>8 Making Claims 120<br/>8.1 Determining the Kind of Claim You Should Make 120<br/>8.2 Evaluating Your Claim 122<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Qualifying Claims to Enhance Your Credibility 127<br/>9 Assembling Reasons and Evidence 130<br/>9.1 Using Reasons to Plan Your Argument 130<br/>9.2 Distinguishing Evidence from Reasons 131<br/>9.3 Distinguishing Evidence from Reports of It 133<br/>9.4 Evaluating Your Evidence 135<br/>10 Acknowledgments and Responses 139<br/>10.1 Questioning Your Argument as Your Readers Will 140<br/>10.2 Imagining Alternatives to Your Argument 142<br/>10.3 Deciding What to Acknowledge 143<br/>10.4 Framing Your Responses as Subordinate Arguments 145<br/>10.5 The Vocabulary of Acknowledgment and Response 146<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Three Predictable Disagreements 150<br/>11 Warrants 152<br/>11.1 Warrants in Everyday Reasoning 153<br/>11.2 Warrants in Academic Arguments 154<br/>11.3 Understanding the Logic of Warrants 155<br/>11.4 Testing Whether a Warrant Is Reliable 156<br/>11.5 Knowing When to State a Warrant 162<br/>11.6 Challenging Others’ Warrants 164<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Two Kinds of Arguments 169<br/>viii c o n t e n t s<br/>I V PLANNING, DRAFTING, AND REVISING 171<br/>P R O L O G U E : P L A N N I N G A G A I N 173<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Outlining and Storyboarding 175<br/>12 Planning 177<br/>12.1 Avoid Three Common but Flawed Plans 177<br/>12.2 Planning Your Report 179<br/>13 Drafting Your Report 187<br/>13.1 Draft in a Way That Feels Comfortable 187<br/>13.2 Use Key Words to Keep Yourself on Track 188<br/>13.3 Quote, Paraphrase, and Summarize Appropriately 188<br/>13.4 Integrating Direct Quotations into Your Text 189<br/>13.5 Show Readers How Evidence Is Relevant 190<br/>13.6 Guard against Inadvertent Plagiarism 191<br/>13.7 The Social Importance of Citing Sources 195<br/>13.8 Four Common Citation Styles 197<br/>13.9 Work through Procrastination and Writer’s Block 199<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Indicating Citations in Your Text 200<br/>14 Revising Your Organization and Argument 203<br/>14.1 Thinking Like a Reader 204<br/>14.2 Revising the Frame of Your Report 204<br/>14.3 Revising Your Argument 206<br/>14.4 Revising the Organization of Your Report 207<br/>14.5 Check Your Paragraphs 209<br/>14.6 Let Your Draft Cool, Then Paraphrase It 209<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Abstracts 211<br/>15 Communicating Evidence Visually 213<br/>15.1 Choosing Visual or Verbal Representations 213<br/>15.2 Choosing the Most E=ective Graphic 214<br/>15.3 Designing Tables, Charts, and Graphs 216<br/>15.4 Specifi c Guidelines for Tables, Bar Charts, and Line Graphs 220<br/>15.5 Communicating Data Ethically 226<br/>16 Introductions and Conclusions 232<br/>16.1 The Common Structure of Introductions 232<br/>Contents ix<br/>16.2 Step 1: Establish Common Ground 235<br/>16.3 Step 2: State Your Problem 237<br/>16.4 Step 3: State Your Response 241<br/>16.5 Setting the Right Pace for Your Introduction 242<br/>16.6 Writing Your Conclusion 244<br/>16.7 Finding Your First Few Words 245<br/>16.8 Finding Your Last Few Words 247<br/>✩ Quick Tip: Titles 248<br/>17 Revising Style: Telling Your Story Clearly 249<br/>17.1 Judging Style 249<br/>17.2 The First Two Principles of Clear Writing 251<br/>17.3 A Third Principle: Old before New 260<br/>17.4 Choosing between Active and Passive 262<br/>17.5 A Final Principle: Complexity Last 264<br/>17.6 Spit and Polish 267<br/>✩ Quick Tip: The Quickest Revision Strategy 268<br/>V SOME LAST CONSIDERATIONS 271<br/>The Ethics of Research 273<br/>A Postscript for Teachers 277<br/>Appendix: Bibliographical Resources 283<br/>Index 313
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Colomb, G. G.
Personal name Williams, J. M.
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